Primitive Beer?

Dan_K · Feb 20, 2019

I've been there a couple times and I have really enjoyed it. Brandon and Lisa are great to hang out with. For better or worse, I really enjoy drinking their beers on tap with the "sparkler" I think it's called that injects some bubbles into the brew as it is being poured.

It's definitely a niche thing and not for everyone. I took my dad and he has no desire to go back. But I'll be back for sure.

It's also a nice, chill place with lots of space and a really unique asthetic. If you have been putting off going and checking it out, go do it- just make sure they will be open first.

And if you have any questions hit them up on Facebook and they will respond quickly.

clusterfolk · Feb 24, 2019

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Hey everyone, my name is Brandon, I’m one of the owners of Primitive Beer (there’s three of us). I generally shy away from contributing to social media, but I figured that even if it hurts it might be worth it... and if not, a great lesson learned for the future!

First off, Primitive Beer is a passion project - my wife (another owner) and myself work full time at other breweries. My point here is that we are doing this for fun and to make people happy - I’m sincerely stoked that anyone enjoys our beer/the esoteric process we adhere to enough to defend what we are working on, but the last thing we want is to create is hostility - our whole purpose is to bring people together, with beer as the excuse!

@clusterfolk, totally understand that what we are presenting is not for everyone, and in fact, may be for a very select audience (I know, antithetical business model). I think it’s worth noting that while we’re absolutely obsessed with every member of the group of breweries you’ve mentioned (Cellar West, Black Project, TRVE, Casey, Beachwood, and Jester King) some of them don’t produce any spontaneous beers (let alone lambic-inspired spontaneous), and none release a product inspired by young lambic, with the exception of Jester King’s Spon Still (and that is arguably the equivalent of Oude Lambic). In fact, the vast majority of Belgian Lambic that proliferates the American market is Gueuze or Gueuze-inspired, which is a more mature/refined blend of Lambic that is highly effervescent and certainly inspires future mature spontaneous beer blended and bottled at Primitive. Point being, I agree with you that many of our early (and future) releases are “rough around the edges”, featuring bitter, tannic, and cider-like qualities, served at cellar temperature and still, but these are actually rather characteristic qualities of the Jonge (young) Lambic you may have experienced in Belgium. I’m excited for the next time you come in (by all means, shoot me an email at [email protected] and let me know), because while we will always aim to serve our young spontaneous beer inspired by Jonge Lambic (this is generally what we have available to-go as bag-in-box), we now have more mature examples on cask (and soon in bottle) that may better suit your tastes. And no worries if not!

As for the names, @FarmerTed, those are for us. Like them or not, they make us laugh!

Thanks everyone!
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Hey Brandon, thanks for the explanation. Like I said, I'm intrigued by what will come out of your brewery going forward. Best of luck!

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